Hi James, Thanks for the feedback :)
On 5 Jul 2010, at 01:58, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day, > > A nearby outback family visited me. The kids played on the XO-1.5's > with os205 ... and I asked them to tell me anything that goes wrong. > > 1. male, age 5, > > - caused Speak text entry widget to display history as a result of an > accidental click, the history took up the entire screen, but child > could not figure out how to get out of the history, typing text did > nothing ... escape key did it, or click on the widget input area, > > - lost in Turtle Art, could not find stop button, ... needed to switch > tabs first, Design changes fixes this in Sugar 0.86 and above (new toolbar design always show a Stop button). > - InfoSlicer, not clear how to proceed, not age appropriate, needed > again to be shown how to use Stop, Yea I find the InfoSlicer UI daunting also ;) Just had a quick look at the source code, doesn't look like new toolbar support is in there yet to resolve the "can't find Stop" case. > - TamTamMini, was able to generate excessive audio to cause crackling in > speakers. > > 2. female, age 7-8, > > - could not exit the Scratch activity, no stop button, ... needed to be > shown how to use File/Quit, I think the very latest Scratch does finally support the Journal, but I don't think the UI has changed to include a Sugar toolbar and Stop. > - Speak in robot interactive mode, stopped responding to input, "8" was > the input, ... needed to be shown how to move on and type something > else, > > - Speak, wanted to make it sound like a girl but could not figure out > how. > > 3. male, age 10, > > - convinced Speak in robot mode to continuously utter speech, but we've > no idea how he did it. Speak sure does seem to be something they tried often, it's that friendly icon I'm sure :) Regards, --Gary > While the above are negative points, the laptops did keep the kids > entertained for a couple of hours, so there must be some positives > there. ;-) > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
